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Neil Winchurst wrote: > Thanks for that and all the answers so far. I tried Redhat first and > then moved on to Suse. Used that for a while and then moved to Mandrake > at about version 7. Have stayed there since, now on Mandriva2006. > > Reading the replies to my questions, I am wondering if I ought to > move on now. The general opinion seems to be that Mandriva is quite > good for newbies before moving on to something like Debian. Is that fair > comment? > > I have 134 Gb free on my hard disk at the moment. Would it be > possible/sensible to install a second distro for a trial run? I have > heard about dual booting but usually with Windows and Linux. So is my > idea feasible? And if so would it be terribly complicated/geeky? > > Thanks > Neil Winchurst > > Well, I'll probably get flamed for this but you could try VMWare-Player on top of your existing install to try out other distros. At least if it doesn't suit you only have to delete a couple of files. Other alternative to VMWare would be either QEmu or Xen. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html